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Exile (Keeper of the Lost Cities, #2)
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This one takes all of the amazing set-up from the first one and catapults the series into a new level. I can tell this is the start of an amazing ride. This review will have SPOILERS for the first book...as it is the second book.
Character development:★★★★�
Plot: ★★★★ 1/2
Pacing: ★★★★
World expansion: ★★★★�
Alright, not going to lie, Exile suffers from the mild sophomore slump. It's coming off of a dramatic series opener where its world was expanded exponentially for the main characters, and now we've got to make sense of the intrigue.
When we left Sophie Foster, elf and telepath extraordinaire, she had just been kidnapped by some rogue elves intent on killing her. She'd been tortured, threatened, and then rescued by the Black Swan, a rebel organization that we thought were the bad guys but SIKE, they might be...the good guys?
Given this altering perception of Sophie's relationship with the Black Swan and the torture inflicted on her by another hidden organization, Exile kicks off with Sophie in a relatively dark place. She's dealing with the PTSD of being captured, her guilt over her friend Dex's involvement, and the strangely intense headaches she has every time she attempts to light leap (travel through space via light beams) or use her abilities.
I found Exile to be another 5 star read, but it was a hard to get through the first 100 pages or so as Sophie was struggling so much with her headaches, inability to sleep/process her trauma, and the problems placed on her by the adult rulers, the Council. BUT, proving once again that this series is a winner, once more plot points began to unfold I found myself hooked once again into the action. Sophie's explosive adventures in Exile are just as page-turning as ever, and it ends with the perfect cliffhanger.
Like I mentioned in my review for the first book, this series pulls no punches when it comes to its narrative. It is aimed for a middle grade audience—and it keeps everything PG with this in mind—but it does tackle some serious topics and involves quite a lot of intrigue. While I was able to spot several plot points coming, I found the writing and world-building to be so good that I didn't care that I knew the big reveals. I've already read book three...and may or may have already bought the rest of the books in this series.
They're that dang good.
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Character development:★★★★�
Plot: ★★★★ 1/2
Pacing: ★★★★
World expansion: ★★★★�
Alright, not going to lie, Exile suffers from the mild sophomore slump. It's coming off of a dramatic series opener where its world was expanded exponentially for the main characters, and now we've got to make sense of the intrigue.
When we left Sophie Foster, elf and telepath extraordinaire, she had just been kidnapped by some rogue elves intent on killing her. She'd been tortured, threatened, and then rescued by the Black Swan, a rebel organization that we thought were the bad guys but SIKE, they might be...the good guys?
Given this altering perception of Sophie's relationship with the Black Swan and the torture inflicted on her by another hidden organization, Exile kicks off with Sophie in a relatively dark place. She's dealing with the PTSD of being captured, her guilt over her friend Dex's involvement, and the strangely intense headaches she has every time she attempts to light leap (travel through space via light beams) or use her abilities.
I found Exile to be another 5 star read, but it was a hard to get through the first 100 pages or so as Sophie was struggling so much with her headaches, inability to sleep/process her trauma, and the problems placed on her by the adult rulers, the Council. BUT, proving once again that this series is a winner, once more plot points began to unfold I found myself hooked once again into the action. Sophie's explosive adventures in Exile are just as page-turning as ever, and it ends with the perfect cliffhanger.
Like I mentioned in my review for the first book, this series pulls no punches when it comes to its narrative. It is aimed for a middle grade audience—and it keeps everything PG with this in mind—but it does tackle some serious topics and involves quite a lot of intrigue. While I was able to spot several plot points coming, I found the writing and world-building to be so good that I didn't care that I knew the big reveals. I've already read book three...and may or may have already bought the rest of the books in this series.
They're that dang good.
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Reading Progress
July 3, 2019
– Shelved
July 3, 2019
– Shelved as:
to-read
July 13, 2019
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Started Reading
July 14, 2019
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Finished Reading
July 15, 2019
– Shelved as:
middle-grade
July 15, 2019
– Shelved as:
read-in-2019
